CAUSE UNDER INVESTIGATION: Lives of THREE CHILDREN and TWO ADULTS Were Claimed By THIS

A fire occurred in the New York City borough of Queens late on Sunday, which ended the lives of five people. This is the deadliest fire that the area has seen in almost two years.

The youngest victim of the fire was a toddler, who was only 2 years old.

The fire completely overtook a home in Queens Village. It was spotted by a passing vehicle, who called the fire department that afternoon.

There was a response time of only four minutes. When they encountered the house, it was completely consumed by flames. No one in the house survived.

Three children in total died in the fire, said Mayor Bill de Balsio in a news conference. None of the names or ages of the victims were released.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It took the fire fighters more than three hours to control the fire.

From Reuters:
Five people, including a 2-year-old toddler and two other children, died on Sunday in a house fire in the New York City borough of Queens, the city’s deadliest such blaze in two years, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. A passing motorist spotted the roaring fire that engulfed the home in the Queens Village neighborhood and called the fire department around 2:30 p.m., the New York Fire Department said in a statement on its Facebook page.“Our members arrived in just over four minutes and were met by a house completely consumed with fire,” FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro told a news conference. “None of the five people in the home survived. It’s a terrible, tragic loss.”He said the youngest victim was 2 years old. Three children were among the dead, de Blasio said at the news conference. He did not release their names or ages. “Our job now is to get down to the bottom of what happened and do everything we can to make sure that no family ever suffers like this again,” de Blasio said on Twitter. The cause of the fire, which took firefighters more than three hours to control, was under investigation, he said.